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Cottage, Liberton, Edinburgh ; Mr E. Bamford, Edenbank, 

 Kelso ; Mr James Thomas Spencer Elliot, yr., of Wolfelee ; Mr 

 W. G. Macdonald, Grammar School, Berwick ; and Dr Thomas 

 Eutherford, Kelso. These along with the others proposed at 

 the different meetings throughout the season, were admitted as 

 members. 



The following were the places in which it appeared to be 

 desirable to hold meetings during 1880 ; but as there would be 

 diflB.culties in carrying some of them out, alternatives were like- 

 wise proposed : — Dunbar for Woodhall and Thurston Woods, on 

 the last Wednesday in M ay ; Gordon, or Longf ormacus in June ; 

 Belford or Beadnell in July ; Morpeth for Newminster Abbey 

 and Mitford in August ; Gilsland in September. 



Several highly interesting articles were exhibited to the meet- 

 ing.. Dr Francis Douglas brought a small green glass phial, 

 conjectured to be Eoman, discovered in digging for the founda- 

 tions of the Public School at Kelso, of which he will give an 

 account. Mr Milne Home produced a chipped spear-head of 

 pale grey flint, like the material of one already figured for the 

 Club, which he had obtained from one of the Earl of Home's 

 gamekeepers, who had picked it up in a rabbit-hole near Eire- 

 burn Mill, opposite Oarham. Sir Walter Elliot, to illustrate his 

 remarks on local archaeology, referred to a variety of specimens, 

 which were handed round. 1 . A very fine fully polished light 

 grey flint celt, got at Wolfhopelee, on Wolfelee estate. 2. A 

 very perfect example of a chipped brownish-grey flint arrow- 

 head, picked up near the Drove Eoad, not far from Wolfelee, in 

 1 862. 3. A wrought flint chip, from a gravel walk at Wolfelee. 

 4. A small stone ring, or rather bead, of greywacke slate, like 

 one already figured for the Club, found at Wolfelee Townhead 

 Cottage, by the shepherd's daughter, in August, 1879. 5. Two 

 distaff spindle weights ; the one met with at Braidhaugh, at the 

 foot of Bonchester, in 1871 ; and the other at the Chester on the 

 Eoundabout farm. 6. An oval stone of a grey quartzy mixture, 

 a sort of bastard sandstone, which had a groove and dimple 

 lengthways to the stone ; about the size and form of a small 

 hammer-stone. — This was from a field at Braidhaugh, at the foot 

 of Bonchester Hill. 7. An Egyptian copper arrow-head from 

 Thebes, March, 1863. 8. A flint arrow-head picked up on the 



